Extract from Speech Is A River by Ruth Mead

Extract from Speech Is A River by Ruth Mead I stopped seeking fluency. Fluency is a by-product of arriving in the Zone (in which all effort to speak is gone). Just as you can’t seek happiness directly because it will elude you (because happiness is a by-product of something else) so you can’t seek fluency directly or it will elude you. So there is no magical technique which you can adopt to stop stuttering immediately because fluency is a by-product of a deep change in your view of speech, a change in belief structure and (as a by-product) a change in your confidence level, self-image, attitudes, and fluency.